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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Diamond, Jared M.     Subjects     Social evolution.     Civilization -- History.     Ethnology.     Human beings -- Effect of environment on.     Culture diffusion.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Diamond, Jared M.       by title:      Guns, germs, and ste...         MARC Display

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond. by Diamond, Jared M. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] Subjects Social evolution.   Civilization -- History.   Ethnology.   Human beings -- Effect of environment on.   Culture diffusion. ISBN:  9780393354324 (paperback) : 0393354326 Series:  Norton paperback. Description:  494 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Edition:  20th Anniversary edition. Contents:  Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or Indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in six chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- Who are the Japanese?: the history of Japan -- The future of human history as a science -- 2017 afterword: Rich and poor countries in light of Guns, germs, and steel. Requests:  0 Summary:  The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. Awards:  Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1998.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 303.4 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.4 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.4 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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